


I hope he's paying attention.
Last night I took a lovely date to the second birthday party of The Monthly Magazine as our great white hope Kevin Rudd was speaking and I do like to take my men on entertaining and thought-provoking journeys in the hope that they might consider kissing me at evening's end.
Before I left, I had the following phone conversation with my mother:
Mum: So what are you going to say to Kevin when you meet him?
Me: Nothing.
Mum: You have to say something.
Me: No I don't. I don't think I even want to meet him.
Mum: How about you pass on a message from me?
Me: Oh my god.
Mum: I'm quite serious.
Me: I know you are.
Mum: Tell him...
Me: Mum, I'm not going to go up to Kevin Rudd and say: 'Hey, my mum has a message for you'. It's retarded.
Mum: (ignoring me completely) Tell him...
Dramatic pause.
...'Don't fuck it up'.
Me: ......
Mum: That's the message.
Me: 'Hello, Kevin. My mum has requested that you not fuck it up.'
Mum: That's right.
Me: I think he knows that already.
Mum: He bloody does not. He gets all excited at press conferences and makes these idiotic claims about victory. He needs to pull his head in.
Me: And not fuck it up.
Mum: Exactly. You tell him from me.
Me: Yes, mother.
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Later that night:
Emcee Charles Firth: And now I'd like to introduce our next speaker, the honourable Kevin Rudd...and in doing so I'd also like to pass on a message on behalf of everyone in this room, and a lot of Australian voters -
DON'T FUCK IT UP.
Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Rudd.
Applause.
Me: Oh my god.
Lovely date: You really should call your mum.
182 days til the next election.
Comments
But did you get kissed?
I'm a regular reader here (just to keep my ear to the crazy-leftie ground), and I have to say this is the first post of yours that has ever made me laugh aloud. Well done, bubble.
So... Charles Firth is your Mum?
sheesh ... i hope charles firth is not your mum
i kinda had her pictured looking all together more lovely & a little less fanta-ish
We were at the same function and before hand we had been discussing what to say to Rudd. We decided on "Please hold it together" - so clearly a lot of people want this to work!!!!!!
wow, your Mum's some sort of political prophet.
i saw you at the door with your date ms fits, he was quite dishy if i may say.
(sorry if that's all a bit stalker-y)
perfect!
Firthy is quite wonderful isn't he?
I hope your dishy date was suitably impressed by this story.
Can I say without a hint of irony
ROFLMAO
that's fucking brilliant. :)
Rudd should sooo use your mum in his ad campaigns leading up to the election.
It's the Zeitgeist. Think Gough, think John Waite and The Babys. Isn't it time?
They are both just saying what we are all thinking, and I hope that Firth's words ring loud and clear in Rudd's ears.
Fucking funniest post evers.
Maybe your Mum didn't trust you to pass the message on and gave it to Mr Firth as well?
Now we just have to wait for the victory party and Rudd making his speech in front of a banner reading "WE DIDN'T FUCK IT UP".
That was brilliant
My dad made me tell Liddy Clark (who had just been elected) how much he thought she was ace in 'Ride on Stranger' when I met her.
I don't disagree with him, but it's not exactly a credibility-builder, is it?
With that sort of dry, laconic wit, I'd like to hear what sort of message your mum would get you to pass on to Howard...
my dad once made me go up to smacka fitzgibbon when i was about 6 and say "are you smacka fitzgibbon". he was. and that was it. i had no follow up. i didn't know who he was anyway.
also, can i ask fits, why didn't you want to go up to kevin? are you, like me, worried that he might just say something to muck it all up, or include a word that, say, starts with a G and ends with a d and then that will just spoil everything?
this is one of my fears.
what about NOW with the whole dalai thing? thin ice for me i'm afraid. but what else can i do? who else can i believe in?
apart from ms grattan and her dominatrix heels.
Awesome stuff.
Indeed.
Don't fuck it up.
There's even a facebook group named after this story:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3377295295
You should be so proud.
I'm off to join the facebook group. Toodles.
'course our message to the chief would be more like "Get out!!!".
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